Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 7 December 2020 Hi Everyone, In June 1991 I arrived on campus as a Biotechnology Outreach Specialist for the Biotech Center and for Cooperative Extension. This was during the bovine growth hormone controversy, and I soon received some eye-opening advice, especially for a plant pathologist: “Always remember, never forget, every dairy operation …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 30 November 2020 Hi Everyone, It’s the end of November. Tomorrow begins December and also signals the start of meteorological winter. After our summer of discontent, perhaps this will be made glorious winter by the lights of rising vaccines. In any case, it may well be, to borrow from Wisconsin-born Laura Ingalls Wilder, The …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 23 November 2020 Hi Everyone, It’s Thanksgiving week, usually the occasion of our national frenzy to travel over the river and through the woods by sleigh or sledge, or by planes, trains or automobiles, to gather with family and friends and to thank goodness for Pete Rozelle and the nationally televised games of …
Explore the Unknown! For November 18, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL this fall, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time this week, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 Hi WN@TL Fans, A map …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 16 November 2020 Hi Everyone, The presidential transition is a rare occasion that brings to the fore the question of which people and which principles will guide executive branch departments in a new administration. This year there’s a special focus on science agencies. As usual, the possible people and their personalities will be in …
Explore the Unknown! For November 11, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL this fall, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time this week, please register here for the WN@TL Zoom. Hi WN@TL Fans, Today …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 9 November 2020 Hi Everyone, A crucial day, a pivotal week, a historic month, a coming new year of transitions—some foreseeable, others yet unknowable: it continues to be a ride to remember. I could use more sunny and 70 days in November. I hope you have been finding them a joy, too. Thanks again! …
Explore the Unknown! For November 4, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL this fall, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time this week, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 2 November 2020 Hi Everyone, Two months done in the academic year, and only two months left in 2020, the Year of Ideal Visual Acuity. It’s all been a blur so far. The Badgers couldn’t play football this past Saturday, and at 22 covid positives by this past Friday one wonders how they’ll field …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 26 October 2020 Hi Everyone, In the past seven days the president attacked Anthony Fauci as “a disaster” and called other health-science experts “these idiots.” Scientists and science have been in the cross-hairs before, but at least in my lifetime rarely so vitriolically while a body count is rising so relentlessly. Science is the S in STEM, …